Figures

Figure drafts for the BHI manuscript.

Fig 1. BHI schematic

(Thorsten is creating BHI schematic)

Fig 2. Flower Plot

Scores by goal for the Baltic Sea, which has an overall Index score of 73. Each petal in this flower plot represents an individual goal, and the petal length and color convey the score of the goal (i.e. longer petals are closer to achieving their target).

Fig 3. Maps

Scores by region for the Baltic Sea, on three different spatial scales. BHI regions (a) are the 42 areas resulting from the intesection of the exclusive economic zones (EEZ)s of 9 Baltic countries (b) with the 17 Baltic subbasins (c). (these will be arranged as subplots)

  1. 42 BHI regions

  2. 9 EEZs

  1. 17 Subbasins

Fig 4: Trend Options

Arrow plot

Status and trend for each goal for every Baltic EEZ. Most goals had high scores and increasing trends. However, the clean waters goal (and subgoals) tended to have lower scores, particularly for contaminants (CON). See Table 1 for goal codes.

Notes:

  • This is probably a better way of visualizing the information we want: status and trend indication for each goal, by EEZ. But scroll down for other options.
  • Right now the line is the actual trend value…could also just represent with a line of the same length to focus attention on direction, not magnitude.

We can get ideas for style from this figure (Thanks Casey!)

Like West Coast Fig 3

I tried create something like Fig 3 in OHI West Coast (Halpern et al. 2014):

But it is not a the best way to visualize this information and piece out what is interesting…

EEZ regions

We’ll probably want to do this figure for EEZs because there are too many BHI regions. This is not a great visualization. Could simplify: grey out non-interesting, simplify to goal-level. But ultimately, this visualization looks like it’s going through time, so it’s not a good way to plot: could do a quadrant so that it’s good doing better, bad doing better, bad doing worse.

Message here: CW not doing great and doesn’t look like it will do great in the future, opposite of other goals?

We could try flipping it by goal, with each country to have its own color.

BHI regions

Too many regions to plot usefully.

Subbasin:

Still too many subplots, also, is this the scale the people care about?

Tables

Table 1: Goals

See table in the BHI manuscript. Alternative goal description text available

Table 2: Resilience

Combine these tables: add a 3rd column to the first table, listing the goals affected.

resilience info

layer description
res_reg_birds Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds
res_reg_bsap HELCOM 2007. HELCOM Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP). HELCOM Ministerial Meeting. Adopted in Krakow, Poland, 15 November 2007.
res_reg_bwd Directive 2006/7/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 February 2006 concerning the management of bathing water quality and repealing the Directive 76/160/EC
res_reg_cbd Convention on Biodiversity
res_reg_cfp Regulation 1380/2013/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 11 December 2013 on the Common Fisheries Policy, amending Council Regulations (EC) No 1954/2003 and (EC) No 1224/2009 and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2371/2002 and (EC) No
res_reg_cites Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora
res_reg_cop21 Paris Climate Agreement
res_reg_hd Directive 1992/43/EC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild fauna and flora
res_reg_helcom Convention on the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area 1992
res_reg_ied Directive 2010/75/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 on industrial emissions (integrated pollution prevention and control)
res_reg_msfd Directive 2008/56/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 June 2008 establishing a framework for community action in the field of marine environmental policy
res_reg_mspd Directive 2014/89/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 July 2014 establishing a framework for maritime spatial planning
res_reg_nd Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources
res_reg_nec Directive 1999/32/EC of 26 April 1999 relating to a reduction in the sulphur content of certain liquid fuels and amending Directive 93/12/EEC
res_reg_pop Regulation 850/2004/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 29 April 2004 on persistent organic pollutants and amending Directive 79/117/EEC
res_reg_reach Regulation 1907/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 18 December 2006 concerning the Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals (REACH), establishing a European Chemicals Agency, amending Directive 1999/45/EC
res_reg_uwwtd Directive 1991/271/EEC Council Directive of 21 May 1991 concerning urban waste water treatment
res_reg_wfd Directive 2000/60/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 23 October 2000 establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy
wgi_all World Governance Indicators (WGI) six combined scores.

Data sources:

resilience matrix

goal AO LSP MAR BD TR NP CS CON EUT TRA ECO FIS ICO LIV
res_biodiversity AO BD NP FIS ICO
res_reg_birds LSP BD TR NP CON ECO FIS ICO
res_reg_bsap AO LSP MAR BD NP CS CON EUT TRA ECO FIS ICO LIV
res_reg_bwd TR CON EUT TRA
res_reg_cbd BD ICO
res_reg_cfp AO LSP MAR BD TR NP FIS ICO
res_reg_cites BD ICO
res_reg_cop21 AO LSP MAR BD NP CS EUT ECO FIS ICO LIV
res_reg_hd LSP BD NP FIS ICO
res_reg_helcom BD NP CON EUT TRA FIS
res_reg_ied CS CON EUT TRA
res_reg_msfd AO LSP MAR BD TR NP CS CON EUT TRA ECO FIS ICO LIV
res_reg_mspd LSP MAR BD TR NP CS ECO FIS ICO LIV
res_reg_nd BD CS EUT
res_reg_nec CON EUT ECO
res_reg_pop CON
res_reg_reach MAR BD TR CON EUT TRA ECO LIV
res_reg_uwwtd BD CS CON EUT
res_reg_wfd AO LSP BD TR NP CS CON EUT ECO FIS ICO LIV
wgi_all AO LSP MAR BD TR NP CS CON EUT TRA ECO FIS ICO LIV

Table 3

Spatial overall scores from the North to the South. The lowest and highest goal scores are named. See manuscript